The Eighth Doctor Collection
(
01/07/2008)
In August,
Big Finsh will be releasing a special box-set collection of the first four Eighth Doctor adventures to be broadcast on
BBC7. The nine disc set features re-presents the adventures:
Storm Warning,
Sword of Orion,
The Stones of Venice and
Invaders from Mars. Plus, on the ninth disc, is a bonus documentary which takes a look at the making of the four adventures. Accompanying the CDs is a special, full colour, twelve-page booklet that includes an introduction by India Fisher who plays the Doctor's companion, Charley Pollard.
The recommended retail price for
The Eighth Doctor Collection is £39.99. But... if you pre-order the boxset via the
Big Finish website before 1st August, you can save £15.00 and purchase it for just £24.99!
The Eighth Doctor Collection is available to pre-order now.
Doctor Who: The Stage Plays
(
30/06/2008)
Big Finish will open the curtains on
Doctor Who’s theatrical past with audio adaptations of the three
Doctor Who stage plays.
Curse of the Daleks, a Doctor-less adventure was written by
David Whitaker and Dalek creator,
Terry Nation and was originally performed in London in 1965. The two subsequent stage plays were written by former Doctor Who script-editor,
Terrance Dicks. 1974’s
The Seven Keys to Doomsday starred
Trevor Martin as a new incarnation of the Doctor and
The Ultimate Adventure in 1989 initially starred
Jon Pertwee and later
Colin Baker.
The Daleks were the Doctor’s opponents in both adventures.
‘
These won’t be massive rewrites,’ explains executive producer
Nick Briggs, ‘
because we want to stay as faithful as possible to the originals and present, for the first time, a lasting, dramatised record of the Doctor’s stage adventures. Terrance has adapted his two plays, and I’ll be making minor changes to Curse, simply to make it more audio-friendly.’
In keeping with this,
The Ultimate Adventure will even include the songs that were featured in the theatrical version.
Each play will be released as a double CD with
The Ultimate Adventure being available from
September,
The Seven Keys to Doomsday in
October and
The Curse of the Daleks in
November.
Colin Baker will star as the Doctor in
The Ultimate Adventure with
Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Daleks in all three. Further casting details are yet to be confirmed.
Doctor Who: The Stage Plays replace
Cyberman 2 in the
Big Finish schedules, with the Cyber mini-series now to be released in
February 2009.
The Key 2 Time Mini series - January 2009
(
30/06/2008)
The Key 2 Time, a three-story mini series, is set for release between
January and
March 2009 as part of
Big Finish’s main
Doctor Who audio adventures range.
Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor will be joined by new companion
Amy, one of two sentient humanoid ‘Tracers’, created to find the six segments of the Key.
Ciara Janson (
Nicole Owen in
Hollyoaks and voices the new animated
Famous Five) plays Amy, while the role of her twin sister
Zara is portrayed by
Laura Doddington, who was recently seen as
PC Wood in
Prime Suspect: The Final Act. The Key 2 Time, sees the
Fifth Doctor on a new hunt for the six segments of the all powerful Key, but this time his task might not be quite as easy as it was the first time around…
[Photo: Ciara Janson as Amy and Laura Doddington as Zara, by
Lisa Bowerman]
Dark Shadows Returns to Big Finish
(
26/06/2008)
Dark Shadows returns to
Big Finish with six new audio releases. The first two are already online for pre-order -
Clothes of Sand and
The Ghost Watcher and you can also
subscribe a receive a discount on all six.
These two new releases are the first in a new series for
Big Finish's Dark Shadows CDs; each dramatic reading will feature two performers, with original music, sound effects and exciting dramatised segments.
Kathryn Leigh Scott reprises her role as
Maggie Evans in the first two stories, accompanied by
Alec Newman, who makes a welcome return to the
Dark Shadows fold. Alec starred as Barnabas in the rarely-seen 2004 Dark Shadows pilot produced by Warner Bros, and will also be familiar to fantasy fans from his roles in
Dune,
Angel and
Star Trek Enterprise.
Casting and story details for a further four releases will be announced shortly, with each production being released monthly from
September. Also a second series of full-cast Dark Shadows audio dramas is in pre-production, more details will be released very soon.
Big Finish Download Subscription Service
(
09/06/2008)
Big Finish is pleased to announce the launch of our
Subscriber Download Service. We are offering both
12 and 6 release subscriptions that give discounts to our main
Doctor Who download range; customers can save up to
£40 by using this service.
The subscription gives instant access to consecutive releases (as long as the play has been released). All downloads are in
MP3 format and do not have any DRM, this is to allow our listeners to play them on any digital playback devices.
We are offering this service to compliment our already successful download service that was launched on the
1st of February 2008. For more information and pricing please see our
Doctor Who Subscription Page.
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